Re: TYPE declaration/statement in Fortran 77 code

On Jun 16, 4:22 am, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I presume it was so the compiler could figure out which
were functions and which were arrays.

How many times have you seen someone forget to put in the DIMENSION
statement and found the compiler thought it was a function?

I think that was the underlying idea; hence the one extra character
allowed in the main program, because the subprograms had to use an
added trailing F...

When you learn a new related rule which replaced an older one, the old
rule is slowly erased in the brain...

A survival feature?
.

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